The Shadow of War
The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy will present “The Shadow of War” with Mark Mazzetti, a national security correspondent for The New York Times, on Feb. 26 at 5:30 p.m. in Stokes Hall, Room 195S. Mazzetti is the author The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth. In 2009, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the intensifying violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Washington’s response, and he has won numerous other major journalism awards, including the George Polk Award (with colleague Dexter Filkins) and the Livingston Award, for breaking the story of the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes. Mazzetti has also written for the Los Angeles Times, U.S. News & World Report, and The Economist. His book will be available for purchase at the event.
Digital Dubliners
Joseph Nugent of BC’s English Department will talk about his digital humanities project, Digital Dubliners, at an A&S Dean’s Colloquium on Feb. 24 starting at 4:30 p.m. in the O’Neill Library Reading Room. Designed and created by students in Nugent’s literature seminar, Digital Dubliners is fully annotated and glossed, with critical essays, filmed interviews with eminent Joyceans, archived images, contemporary recordings, and interactive maps. It will be available in the spring through iTunes U.
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Tagged English Department, Ireland, James Joyce, joycean
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The Russian novel in Brazil
University of São Paolo Professor Bruno Gomide, a leading Brazilian expert on Russian literature and culture and a translator of Russian writers into Portuguese, will present “The Russian Novel in Brazil,” based on his study DA ESTEPE À CAATINGA: O Romance Russo no Brasil (1887-1936). The event will take place Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. in Lyons Hall, room 207. His lecture will be in English. Sponsor: The Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures.
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Tagged Brazil, Portugese, Russia, Slavic and Eastern Languages Dept
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“Dating God”
Franciscan friar Daniel P. Horan, OFM, a columnist for America magazine, will present “Dating God: Intimacy, Prayer, and Franciscan Spirituality” on Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. St. Francis has come into the worldwide spotlight in a new way with the election of Pope Francis. Fr. Dan’s lecture will present insights from the Franciscan tradition. A doctoral student in BC’s Theology Department, Fr. Dan is the author of The Last Words of Jesus: A Meditation on Love and Suffering, Francis of Assisi and the Future of Faith: Exploring Franciscan Spirituality and Theology in the Modern World, and Dating God: Live and Love in the Way of St. Francis. Sponsors: The Church in the 21st Century Center and the Theology Department.
Poetry Days: Tracy K. Smith
In honor of Poetry Days, Boston College will host an appearance by poet Tracy K. Smith on Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Smith’s most recent collection of poetry, Life on Mars, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. The collection draws on sources as disparate as Arthur C. Clarke and David Bowie, and is in part an elegiac tribute to her late father, an engineer who worked on the Hubble Telescope. Duende, her second book, won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and an Essence Literary Award. The Body’s Question, her first book, was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award and a Whiting Award. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series | An NPR interview with Smith.
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Tagged poet, poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner
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